Probably my favorite benchmade. Blade shape is very useful, amazing steel, axis locks are awesome, some really good looking G-10, and a beautiful pocket clip. Looks like a fancy pen if you work in an office (I don’t). Pairs lovely with a large sebenza with plain Ti handle. Great tip for pulling splinters, detail cutting, and just enough grip area for my medium hands. It just feels and looks so damn good. Absolutely a gem. Also the only knife I have bought twice, one get eaten by a warehouse I worked in, set it down and it disappeared ;( My lovely wife replaced it for me cause I was sad and going into surgery after I lost it. Get it if you think you might like it, not an easy knife to sharpen but some diamond stones make it very possible and it came sharp. All I did was strop it like I do with all my new knives because I’m a dork.
For my purposes this is the best edc knife I have ever owned. Beautiful build quality. Medium size and light weight, but still has a good sized fairly heavy blade that is very well shaped for easy sharpening. Just cant go wrong with this one ! I really , really like the m390 steel in this knife and it isnt very hard to sharpen, but stays sharp much longer than my s30v buck knife. I cant find any negatives with this one.
Bought for a friend who specifically wanted something with very small pocket feel and this is it. Extremely light and narrow (handle to handle and spine to edge). M390 steel is always an awesome choice, worth the money. He says the knife performs bigger than it looks!
Would have given it a 5 except it was not sharp out of the box. Every other Benchmade knife I ever purchased was shaving sharp when I received it. I had no problem getting it sharp, but it should not have needed sharpening.
Yea, Thou I Walk Thru the Valet of the Shadow of Death
I got my orange box a couple of days ago. I was ecstatic until I opened it and got my hands on the knife. F&F are good. The blade was centered. It would shave, albeit reluctantly, OOTB. I was extremely difficult to open and close. The action was gritty and jerky. I BlueLubed it with much of a salutory effect. Today, I found a YouTube video of Nick S taking one apart. His was as dry as the Sahara. He had quite a bit of difficulty reassembling it. (There was no editing of the video.) So. So. So. I found my Torx drivers and other stuff and took this apart. The is white threadlocker on it. There was BlueLube around the pivot and the washers, but really none was on them. I cleaned these. Lightly polished the washers with the white stone from my Sharpmaker. BlueLubed everything the needed it. And had a lot more trouble than Nick in my reassembling the knife. It is ever so much better. My rating now is 4. It is still not as smooth as my North River (I think that's the name). This will certainly be included in my rotation. But for the way it came. Shame on Benchmade. If you order a Benchmade axis lock from KC, ask them to check it so you don't get an escapee like I did. I bear no ill will towards KC. I'm about half way to another $50 rebate. This might be my last Benchmade. My first was the Barrage in M390. That's a great one.
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